movables

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Normally the capital receives about 14 million visitors annually; this year 17 million are expected, and already 10,000 tourists are trooping through the White House every day, eyeing the movables.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simple, serviceable movables fall into few kinds: the box, cupboard, and table, the stool, bench, and chair.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

At any rate, they led him to the belief that the diamonds were in the thief's rooms, but not among his movables, or they would have been found after the arrest.

From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Morrison, Arthur

Hat boxes, trunks, and the other movables of the voyager manifest great hilarity at the change in the weather, and dance about the floor in a manner that must satisfy the most fastidious beholder.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

It was enough that acquisition of land and movables and private ownership of them were part of the existing social system.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe